Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG537 Vickers Viscount by David Pentland

Vickers Viscount by David Pentland

Having been built during a more austere period

including a second place to Alain Prost at Brazil and a second place to Ricardo Patrese in San Marino

Kelly flew northward to the northern most tip of the island of Luzon

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) REG537 Vickers Viscount by David PentlandDHM1813AP. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa